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Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 and SharePoint Hybrid Administration

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

SharePoint Server is an on-premises collaboration and business productivity platform. It serves as a content management and web services platform, enabling users to create, publish, and discover content and applications and integrate with business systems. This SharePoint book offers complete, up-to-date coverage of the SharePoint Server 2019 interface to help you configure and deploy confidently from the start. With the help of clear and succinct explanations and expert tips, this book covers SharePoint Server and SharePoint Hybrid configuration as well as the process for migrating to Microsoft SharePoint Online. As the book takes you through strategies and techniques for configuring and managing SharePoint on-premises and hybrid scenarios, you’ll get to grips with the concepts essential for SharePoint deployments, such as authentication, Business Connectivity Services, and the data gateway. You’ll also explore migration methods and strategies. By the end of this book, you'll have learned the fundamentals of deploying SharePoint Server 2019 and be able to use this reference guide for your administration tasks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Planning and configuring Managed Metadata Service applications

In this series of sections and tasks, you'll learn about the terminology related to metadata and content classification, as well as the tools and options available for making metadata available to your users. Planning a successful Managed Metadata Service implementation requires input from both business and technical resources to ensure that there's a well-reasoned structure that takes into account the taxonomy and terminology that the organization uses.

Overview and terminology

When discussing metadata, the following terms are used to describe the core concepts:

  • Taxonomy: This is a formal, hierarchical grouping of words, labels, and terms used to describe something.
  • Folksonomy: This is an informal classification system containing labels, keywords, and terms applied by end users to describe something. If you've seen blog sites that have categories and tags (such as a tag cloud), that is an example of a folksonomy...